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Students in Sean Fitzgerald’s fourth grade class at the Murphy School – with help from some eighth graders – raised $1,133 for The Women’s Lunch Place shelter in the Back Bay this month by selling homemade Christmas ornaments crafted from a tree that came down in Fitzgerald’s yard. Fitzgerald said the class has been studying the idea of volunteering and making changes to their
Washington Township School was one of the first to consolidate in March of 1920 when a group of five men were elected to act as a building committee. When the school opened in late fall of 1921, nine other rural schools in the township were closed.
"Sally was a dedicated educator who loved teaching her second graders, especially poetry and all types of children’s literature."
The anticipated Mass and Cass spillover should the mayor’s anti-encampment ordinance pass this month is already occurring, driven by what one city councilor says is the dangerousness of the area pushing its inhabitants to set up tents elsewhere.
In 1983, Ed and Mary Forry launched a monthly newspaper from a makeshift office in their Lower Mills home. Forty years later, The Reporter is still in business and the Forry’s vision of creating a quality hometown newspaper for Boston’s largest neighborhood remains a weekly work in progress. When he left his home near Dorchester Park that Monday morning in August of 1983, Ed